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• Dept. Of Campaign Finance Reform: Please Contribute To Californians For Obama (Not Affiliated With Barack Obama's Campaign In Any Way)

  Published: July 25, 2007, 2:10 pm

  Tags: 2008, Barry Hussein Obama, Dept Of Campaign Finance Reform, Scams

  So this scam artist starts a website called “Californians for Obama,” and what do you know, people happily enter their personal information and credit-card info and give the guy $10,000...

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• In Brief: Think you're email scam-proof? Take McAfee's ...

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:57 am

  Tags: Phishing, Scams, Security

  Think you're email scam-proof? Take McAfee's 10 question phishing quiz which asks you to ID the authentic web pages over the scams. I scored a 7 out of 10 - you?

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• Russian Dating Scams

  Published: January 3, 2006, 10:36 am

  Tags: Dating Scams

  highlights the potential scams surrounding international dating and marriage services/agencies. In particular it focuses on Russian dating and marriage scams; especially because over the last few years there have been a significant number of reported cases of fraud imagine the number of unreported cases? Indeed, I suspect most men who

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• Romance Scam Do Not Get Caught

  Published: August 3, 2007, 10:45 pm

  Tags: Scams, Financial, General News, Dating Scam, Facebook, Myspace, New Romance, Romance Scam, Romance Scams, Scam, Scammers, Scams, Social Networking, Www Romancescam Com

  romance scam, romance scams, scam, scammers, scams, social networking, www.romancescam.comIf you enjoyed this post invite me to drink a

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• Ameriquest Class Action Lawsuit

  Published: August 5, 2007, 2:27 am

  Tags: Legal, Scams, Financial, Real Estate, Ameriquest, Ameriquest Class Action Lawsuit, Ameriquest Lawsuit, Ameriquest Mortgage, Ameriquest Mortgage Class Action Lawsuit, Ameriquest Mortgage Lawsuit, Ameriquest Scam, Class Action, Class Action Lawsuit

  Ameriquest Class Action Lawsuit Ameriquest is one of the United States’s leading wholesale subprime lenders. Ameriquest was founded in 1979, in Orange County, California, as a bank, Long Beach Savings & Loan. The bank moved to Orange County in 1991 and was converted to a pure mortgage lender in 1994, renamed Long Beach Mortgage Co. In

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• Did You Know That Cell Phone Companies Can Extend Your Contract Without Your Knowledge?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:29 am

  Tags: Consumer Scams, Consumer Alerts, Consumer Issues

  Actually, without your EXPLICIT knowledge. However, according to a report by MSNBC's Red Tape Chronicles posted on August 7th, 2007, cell phone companies can use ANY verbal exchange between yourself and the company as implicit permission to extend your contract without EXPLICITLY informing you of it or giving you an opportunity to decline, even if

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• Alaska Scam Alert: Beware Of Eager Young College Girls With Soulful Eyes Selling You "Magazine Subscriptions" Door-To-Door

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:42 pm

  Tags: Consumer Scams, Consumer Alerts, Consumer Issues

  are targeted with countless scams like this nationwide.2). Immigrants: While Kellen doesn't mention this, immigrants can also be a preferred target, because of their lack of fluency in English. Scammers will take advantage of this, as well as the immigrants' frequent desire not to look stupid by asking the scammer to explain himself more

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• Tell the IRS what you think of it

  Published: August 28, 2007, 11:42 am

  Tags: Irs, Scams

  The agency probably already knows, but you still can tell it just how much you love or hate it. You can do so directly. Or you can filter your comments through the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (my personal recommendation, since I'm a member of TAP). But don't, however tempting it might be, take part in a "survey opportunity" that shows up in

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• EXMT Stock Spam

  Published: August 19, 2007, 4:47 am

  Tags: Legal Scams Spam Stock Market Financial

  Looks like the Pump and Dump stock spammers are flooding in-boxes with Stock Spam for EXMT (Exchange Mobile Tele (other OTC EXMT.PK). I have been collecting the stock spams our users are getting and forwarding them directly to enforcement@sec.gov. I have reported around 25 of these in the last two days. I encourage anyone who

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• Operators Who Crammed Unauthorized Charges For Web Site Services Onto Phone Bills Will Pay $1.2 Million to Settle FTC Charges

  Published: August 18, 2007, 8:29 am

  Tags: Legal Scams Small Business

  "Operators who allegedly crammed unauthorized charges for Web site services onto the phone bills of hundreds of thousands of small businesses and non-profits will pay more than $1.2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their operations violated federal law. The settlements also will bar the unlawful practices the defendants

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• Network Solutions Sells Marketing Lists of Domain Owners

  Published: August 10, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Business Complaints Customer Service Ethics Scams

  Network Solutions one of the most expensive domain registrars and controller of the .com's sells domains owners information to other companies. I own and manage over 570+ domains and not (finally) all of them are on gkg.net. I had several still at Network Solutions up until a couple of weeks ago. I kept getting weird postal junk

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• Banks and Phishing Email Reporting Problems

  Published: August 8, 2007, 7:15 am

  Tags: Business Customer Service Legal Scams Spam Phishing

  It just amazes me how very few banks have an easy way to report fraudulent and phishing emails. Just yesterday I got a email purported to be from US Bank (i don't bank with them). It looked very official but it had a different URL link in the email than the US Bank website. So I go direct to the US Bank website and look for 'security'

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• SCAM ALERT - The Georgia Labor Law Poster Service

  Published: August 2, 2007, 4:14 pm

  Tags: Business Complaints Scams

  "First it was the federal minimum wage poster scam now scammers are trying to sell Georgia Labor law posters available for free from the State of Georgia." --- I tell you what it seems that many companies out there are willing to scam Georgia businesses. I just a green letter from "The Georgia Labor Law Poster Service", it basically

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• DMCA - Coupon Hacker Faces DMCA Lawsuit - Coupons.com SUCKS

  Published: August 22, 2007, 5:48 am

  Tags: Legal Malware Scams Spyware

  "John Stottlemire is the DVD Jon of coupon-clipping, and it's getting him in trouble. The California man is on the working end of a federal copyright lawsuit after posting code and instructions that allow shoppers to circumvent copy protection on downloadable, printable coupons -- the type used by General Foods, Colgate,

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• US Bank and Phishing Email Reporting Problems

  Published: August 8, 2007, 7:18 am

  Tags: Business Consumer Legal Phishing Scams Spam

  It just amazes me how very few banks have an easy way to report fraudulent and phishing emails. Just yesterday I got a email purported to be from US Bank (i don't bank with them). It looked very official but it had a different URL link in the email than the US Bank website. So I go direct to the US Bank website and look

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